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Child abuse is a blight on us all : Comments
By Rob Moodie, published 9/7/2008We need greater public awareness about the long-term consequences of child abuse and neglect.
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Nowhere is this better illustrated and documented than in the Senate Report: "Forgotten Australians: A report on Australians who experienced institutional or out-of-home care as children", 2004. http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/clac_ctte/completed_inquiries/2004-07/inst_care/report/
The Senate Committee heard hundreds of disturbing stories of abuse and neglect. Unfortunately the Howard Government buried this report and excused its own inaction by declaring that child abuse and neglect experienced by countless thousands of Australians as children growing up in out-of-home care were matters for the States, churches and charities.
Two years later it contradicted its own position by invading the Northern Territory.
For more detailed information visit these two websites:
Care Leavers of Australia Network - http://www.clan.org.au/pages/index.php
and Alliance of Forgotten Australians - http://www.clan.org.au/pages/index.php